Description

Dessin (pronounced like "design") is an innovative combination of mind map and phone automator. It allows you to make notes, draw mind-maps and even build circuits, which will control your phone. You will achieve all of these things by connecting nodes into circuits:

This is not a single-purpose app. Some of the things that you may do with it:

- make shopping list that your phone will show to you near grocery - write notes during lectures (and connect them with other notes) - automatically silence phone during lectures - automatically silence phone when in the cinema - enable Wi-Fi only at home - schedule alarm at 8am from monday to friday - keep the screen bright when reading books

App is (mostly) localized in several languages: english, german, spanish, french, polish, portugal, russian, chinese. If you want to translate it/correct/update translation to your language, you can do so on http://translate.dessin.it/

Reviews

3.3

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James Knight

Good if icons can be understood This looks like the next sci fi ui. I imagine it would have a learning curve but we're all getting there with one hand typing. Probably work better on a bigger screen. Wouldn't it be easier to connect elements of the same type by 3 fingers, one on each element at the same time. //tried it, the sounds add a lot to it. I like the interface, zoom is great and the smoothness,but I think its purpose will be superseded by voice i.e utter. Maybe repurpose this, imagine a 4 finger version reminiscent of enders game

pepe vazquez

Hopefully About it...

Mostafa Arafa

Creative........

Barry Prendergast

Almost there Excellent concept, excellent visual design, excellent options but the interaction design needs a lot of work to make the workflow faster and more simple. (A lot of comparison to IFTTT- a great benchmark for powerful, complex, simple). When that happens, this could be a killer app.

santhosh kumar

Nice app Multi processing app

Eduardo Avallone de Souza

Nice idea I like the idea but is really hard to use, and i don't know how to use. I will keep the app because i hope this will be improved.

User reviews

James Knight January 14, 2014

Good if icons can be understood This looks like the next sci fi ui. I imagine it would have a learning curve but we're all getting there with one hand typing. Probably work better on a bigger screen. Wouldn't it be easier to connect elements of the same type by 3 fingers, one on each element at the same time. //tried it, the sounds add a lot to it. I like the interface, zoom is great and the smoothness,but I think its purpose will be superseded by voice i.e utter. Maybe repurpose this, imagine a 4 finger version reminiscent of enders game

Almost there Excellent concept, excellent visual design, excellent options but the interaction design needs a lot of work to make the workflow faster and more simple. (A lot of comparison to IFTTT- a great benchmark for powerful, complex, simple). When that happens, this could be a killer app.

Perhaps I'm loving the idea of this app. I want to be able to resize the view (and have it stay that size), more triggers, more actions, and to be able to set the z-layering of nodes. Heck, if it supported widgets and app shortcuts/could launch apps, I'd use it as a home screen.

Good concept but needs to be easier understand it Just in terms of favourite UX principle "Don't make me think" I think it still has some way to go. Having to watch two videos to get it, should not be necessary. But I'll keep checking and if they get it right I might get the full version. Also the price seems a bit high.

Great potential Let's take a moment to appreciate how smooth and effective it is as an app. I'm genuinely impressed! Now, the app does have it's limits, even the paid one, but that can easily be worked on. And the app could do a better job at explaining some of, if not all, the features. I'll bookmark this for later purchase! I hope you keep working on it :)

very limited I tried the app after seeing it in android police, but I can't find any use for it. Its too functionally limited and unintuitive. I'm sure if you invested the time to memorize the gestures you could create mind maps really quick, but since the ui is really awkward when you're new, the app is frustratingly slow to use .

Hard to understand There is no sample workflow, the application is hard to understand at first. The in-app paid options are not good, i'd prefer get some ads while creating my workflows than having in-app options. The design is nice, the app seems smooth. I'll wait for few releases and see how it improves and compare to tasker. It is hard to compare it though since you do not have trial for the option you have to purchase...

Sounds good, should be better On my tablet my finger is in the way of options and the text is too small. Things are selected before you know it. Outside youtube, there seems no clear tutorial in the app itself. I don't know if the app is good, as the interface needs work. Concept is amazing though and I'm looking forward to the development

Great concept I don't understand the people complaining about the text being too small or blocked by fingers. After couple of use, I don't even look at the text so I don't think those are a problem. Great concept and would like to see more actions.

Pretty but confusing as hell. This is an example of really bad UX design. Icons are unintelligible, patterns are un predictable to a new user, and I am still not clear if this is a mind mapping tool or a phone automation tool.